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Camera Obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design
So, what then is human centered design if it's failing most of the humans surrounding it? We were trying to broaden the aperture and bring the lens further back to look more coherently at everything that goes on when inserting a product, service, or built environment. What happens when you create something and put it into a human system?
Stevie Watts • From 1:1 to 1:Many—Humans, Artefacts, & Ecosystems Thinking
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Designers are taught that their job is to represent the people who will use our products. We "empathize" with them and put their needs at the center of our decision-making process. As companies scale up, their priorities and incentives become less and less aligned with the people using their products. Bad things happen as we stop solving people pro... See more
Jesse Weaver • Human-Centered Design Dies at Launch
show that user-experience design offers us a new lens for the study of spaces as designed objects, as well as illuminates the relationship between designed spaces and the behaviors that occur within them. The language of experience design opens an engaging framework for studying spaces in myriad contexts and evaluating the role digital technology p
... See moreJohn A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
Second, the lens of experience design as a framework for analysis. This book posits that a consideration of the space-technology-user interaction in both established and emerging spaces is an area primed for study and reflection.